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Three New Affiliate Faculty Members Join Northwestern Computer Science
Professors Nivedita Arora, Matt Groh, and Ermin Wei join the team of affiliate faculty members helping to advance the department’s multidisciplinary academic and research mission.Mar 25, 2024
Engaging with Lawmakers, Business Leaders to Promote AI Safety
The Northwestern Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI) is engaging with lawmakers and business leaders as it educates the public about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.Mar 22, 2024|from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence
Advancing Compiler Technology
Eight papers reflecting multidisciplinary Northwestern Computer Science collaborations in compilers have been accepted into prestigious conferences this year.Mar 20, 2024
New AI Tool Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
Northwestern and University of Cincinnati researchers partner to build a novel machine learning model based in cognitive science.Mar 18, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern CS Welcomes New Teaching-Track Faculty Members
New faculty of instruction include Anjali Agarwal, Dietrich Geisler, and Yiji Zhang.Mar 18, 2024
Questions to Ask about Government Use of Deepfakes
Professors VS Subrahmanian and Daniel Linna Jr. are examining the emerging technology’s potential harms to democracy.Mar 13, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Karan Ahuja Wins ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award
The dissertation advances the state of the art in high-fidelity user tracking and digitization and opens new paradigms in augmented and virtual reality, health sensing, and natural user interfaces.Mar 6, 2024
CASMI Recognizes Research Focused on Preventing, Mitigating AI Harms
Four papers were accepted to the safety-focused "AI Incidents and Best Practices" track at the Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence.Feb 28, 2024|from Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence
Society of Women Engineers Hosts 2024 Career Day for Girls
Around 180 Chicago-area middle school and high school students signed up to visit campus as part of the February 24 event.Feb 27, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Taylor Olson and Lixu Wang Awarded IBM PhD Fellowships
The highly competitive IBM PhD Fellowship Award program recognizes students with demonstrated expertise in pioneering research areas, including artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud technology, quantum computing, and security.Feb 27, 2024
Learning from Software Failures
Students in Vincent St-Amour’s new Responsible Software Engineering course are analyzing case studies of software failures and exploring tools and techniques to prevent similar disasters.Feb 27, 2024
Northwestern CS, YWCA Advance ‘Tech Lab’ Initiative
Supported by a Racial Equity and Community Partnership grant from Northwestern, Northwestern Computer Science and YWCA Evanston/North Shore are helping remove racial barriers in the technology field through the YW Tech Lab economic empowerment training program.Feb 8, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Daniel W. Linna Jr. Joins Illinois Supreme Court AI Task Force
The task force aims to propose AI policy, guidelines, and court rules for the Illinois Judicial Branch and recommend AI implementation opportunities.Feb 8, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
AI Professional Headshots Are Quick and Easy. But Should You Use One?
Professor Kristian Hammond was quoted in a story about AI headshot providers that give you the chance to get dozens of professional headshots with the click of a button, but also raise bigger questions.Feb 8, 2024|from Washington Post
Centering Sound Artists in Generative Music
On January 26, researchers and sound artists discussed the design and implications of generative models in music.Feb 7, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News